The Real Radio Hatemongers

Executive Summary

The so-called “news” media have spent much of the past two decades
demonizing the rhetoric of conservative radio talk show hosts as
mean-spirited, divisive or a menace to civil discourse. But these same
journalists — who gleefully castigate Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Mark
Levin and other conservatives — are silent about the vile and vicious
rhetoric that spews from the Left’s leading radio talk show hosts.

Since
late 2007, the Media Research Center has collected numerous examples
of the outrageousness of left-wing radio hosts. And, unlike the Left —
which attempted to smear Rush Limbaugh with phony quotes — readers can
find an audio or video of every one of these quotes posted at our Web
site: www.MRC.org.

This report includes examples of over-the-top
rhetoric from left-wing hosts Mike Malloy, Stephanie Miller, Randi
Rhodes, Ron Reagan, Jr., Ed Schultz and Montel Williams, all of whom
currently or at one time broadcast to a national audience on either the
Air America network or via XM and/or Sirius satellite radio. Among the
lowlights:

Conservatives Want to Kill Barack Obama: “I really think there are conservative broadcasters in this country who would love to see Obama taken out.” (Ed Schultz)

Conservatives Are Terrorists:
“Do you not understand that the people you hold up as heroes bombed
your goddamn country? Do you not understand that Glenn Beck and Sean
Hannity and Rush Limbaugh and Bill O’Reilly are as complicit of the
September 11, 2001 terror attack as any one of the dumbass 15 who came
from Saudi Arabia?” (Mike Malloy)

Conservatives Want You to Die:
“If, in fact, the GOP doesn’t like any form of health care reform, what
do we do with those 40 to 60 million uninsured?...When they show up in
the emergency room, just shoot ‘em! Kill them!...Do we have enough
body bags? I don’t know.” (Montel Williams)

Conservative Congresswoman Would Have Liked the Holocaust:
“[Representative Michele Bachmann is] a hatemonger. She’s the type of
person that would have gladly rounded up the Jews in Germany and
shipped them off to death camps....This is an evil bitch from Hell.”
(Mike Malloy)

Dick Cheney Eats Babies: “Cheney, by the
way, looks very ruddy. I couldn’t get over that. Like, he must have
feasted on a Jewish baby, or a Muslim baby. He must have sent his
people out to get one and bring it back so he could drink its blood.”
(Mike Malloy)

Dick Cheney Should Die: “He is an enemy of
the country, in my opinion. Dick Cheney is an enemy of the
country....Lord, take him to the Promised Land, will you? See, I don’t
even wish the guy goes to Hell, I just want to get him the hell out of
here.” (Ed Schultz)

Rush Limbaugh Should Die: “I’m
waiting for the day when I pick up the newspaper or click on the
Internet and find that he’s choked to death on his own throat fat, or a
great big wad of saliva or something, whatever. Go away, Limbaugh, you
make me sick.” (Mike Malloy)

Michele Bachmann Should Die:
“So, Michele, slit your wrist! Go ahead! I mean, you know, why not? I
mean, if you want to — or, you know, do us all a better thing. Move that
knife up about two feet. I mean, start right at the collarbone.”
(Montel Williams)

If the establishment media were really interested in cleansing
the airwaves of hateful rhetoric, they would not confine their
criticism to conservative hosts. Instead, they would — and they must —
make an equal effort to expose the nastiness that runs rampant on
left-wing talk radio. Unless and until they do, they are participating
in an act of journalistic hypocrisy.

Introduction

When liberals are out of power, their slogan is: “Dissent is
patriotic.” But when liberals are in charge, they do not seem
especially inhibited about discrediting and demonizing conservative
critics, especially when conservatives are winning the battle of public
opinion. With the Obama administration and big government liberals now
facing potentially devastating midterm elections, conservative talk
radio once again finds itself alongside the Tea Party at the top of
liberals’ 2010 hit list.

This is nothing new. For two decades,
conservative radio hosts have been under assault from the establishment
media as mean-spirited, divisive and a menace to civil discourse.
After the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, Bryant Gumbel smarmily insinuated
that conservative broadcasters were the real villains: “Never do most
of the radio hosts encourage outright violence, but the extent to which
their attitudes may embolden and encourage some extremists has clearly
become an issue.” Then-CBS anchor Dan Rather smeared: “You can turn on
your radio in any city and still dial up hate talk: extremist, racist
and violent rhetoric, from the hosts and those who call in.”

A dozen years later, ex-NBC Nightly News
anchor Tom Brokaw was still hammering away: “The problem with talk
radio is they mock anyone else’s point of view, and they do it often in a
mindless fashion....We’ve lost the ability to have civil discourse in
America, and it’s a big cancer on our political system as well.”

When
conservative hosts say something that liberals want to paint as out of
bounds — or when the Left falsifies quotes to impugn them — the news
media seize the opportunity to stoke the fires of outrage. Journalists
also have no problem heaping epithets on individual hosts. Sean Hannity
is a “conservative junkyard dog,” according to CBS’s Morley Safer. Mark
Levin is an “angry voice” speaking to “the wingnuts,” MSNBC’s Chris
Matthews claimed. Time’s Joe Klein blasted both Hannity and Glenn
Beck as “poisonous helium balloons” who peddle “hateful crap.” When
radio host Bill Cunningham dared call then-presidential candidate Barack
Hussein Obama by his full name in 2008, CNN’s Anderson Cooper branded
it “sleazy campaigning” from “a two-bit radio host.”

The
fiercest attacks have been aimed at the leader of the pack, Rush
Limbaugh. CNN’s Jack Cafferty took to the airwaves to slam Limbaugh as
“that corpulent Oxycontin aficionado of right-wing talk radio,” while
MSNBC’s Matthews disparaged him as a “human vat of vitriol.” New York Times
online columnist Judith Warner indicted the supposedly intemperate
language of conservative hosts for the Holocaust museum shooting: “You
can’t accuse Beck or Limbaugh of inciting violence. But they almost
certainly do stoke the flames.” In October 2009, both CNN and MSNBC
jumped to attack Limbaugh as a racist after the Left circulated a
made-up quote of the host supposedly praising the merits of slavery.

The
impression left by such “reporting” is that conservatives are
befouling the nation’s airwaves while liberals seek only to enlighten.
This spring, longtime CNN and MSNBC political commentator Bill Press
(who now hosts his own morning radio show) detailed the critique of
conservative radio in his book, Toxic Talk: How the Radical Right Has Poisoned America’s Airwaves.
Press charged that conservative radio has “an extremely corrosive
impact on our public discourse: engaging in personal attacks, spreading
lies, fanning the flames of bigotry, and slamming the door on
legitimate differences of opinion....The genie of right-wing talk,
unleashed by Limbaugh and his compatriots, is destroying our democratic
process.”

Instead of talk radio dominated by “ugly
name-calling” from “today’s ministers of hate on the right,” Press
suggested an uplifting liberal version: “I believe talk radio should
inform, not inflame. I think it should entertain, not demean. I think
it should elevate political discourse, not debase it.” The thought
echoed Mario Cuomo, who attempted a radio show of his own after losing
the New York governorship in 1994: “We [liberals] believe in subtlety.
We believe in telling the whole truth. We don’t want to exaggerate.
They [conservatives] write their message with crayons. We use
fine-point quills.”

So liberal talk radio elevates discourse,
using fine-point quills? The Media Research Center has recorded and
tracked the radio shows of several top national liberals since late
2007. In that time, left-wing hosts have: wished for the death of top
conservatives; called Republicans and conservatives “terrorists”
responsible for the 9/11 attacks; and charged that conservatives want
to kill President Obama.

Host Mike Malloy — a onetime CNN news
writer and producer — has “joked” that conservatives feast on the blood
of children, and wished for Rush Limbaugh to “choke to death on his
own throat fat.” Ed Schultz called Dick Cheney “an enemy of the
country” and hoped he would die: “Lord, take him to the Promised Land,
will you?” Randi Rhodes accused Republicans of “acts of treason” and of
wanting to “let people drown in hurricanes.” Montel Williams (whose
program ceased in early 2010 with the bankruptcy of the Air America
network) invited Republican Representative Michele Bachmann to slit her
own throat: “Start right at the collarbone.”

Yet the “news”
media that have gone out of their way to demonize conservative hosts
have had virtually nothing to say about the vile and vicious rhetoric
that spills forth from the Left’s leading radio talk show hosts. MSNBC
even gave Ed Schultz his own program in 2009, bringing his extremist
rhetoric to an even wider audience.

And liberals like Bill Press
don’t seem at all bothered by the vitriol emanating from his side of
the airwaves. In the acknowledgments of Toxic Talk, Press went
out of his way to praise his liberal comrades: “There may not be many
national progressive talk show hosts, but the few who do broadcast
every day are world-class. I’m proud to be in the company of Ed Schultz,
Stephanie Miller, Thom Hartmann, Randi Rhodes, Ron Reagan, and Mike
Malloy — and I’m in awe of their strong voices on the air.”

It’s
hypocritical for liberals like Press to attack conservatives for
supposed poor behavior on the airwaves while applauding “progressive”
hosts who act far worse. And it’s journalistic malpractice for news
reporters to tout the virtues of civility on the airwaves and say
nothing about the vicious rhetoric spewing from left-wing media.

What
follows is a listing of some of the most outrageous quotes from radio
hosts that the MRC has collected since late 2007. And, unlike the
Left’s concocted smears against Rush Limbaugh,
every single one of these quotes have been documented: The report that
follows includes an audio clip (or, in a few cases, a video clip) of
each quote cited.

Conservatives are Anti-American Terrorists

Conservatives Want Terrorists to Succeed

Host Joe Scarborough: “Do you agree with the CIA Director that it’s almost as if Dick Cheney hopes Americans die so he gains a political advantage?”Ed Schultz: “Absolutely. Absolutely.”Scarborough:
“So you believe Dick Cheney wants Americans to die?...You believe the
former Vice President wants Americans to die in a terrorist attack so he
can gain a political advantage?”Schultz: “You got it, Joe.
You got it. I think Dick Cheney’s all about power. I think Dick Cheney
is all about seeing this country go conservative on a hard right-wing
and I think he’ll do anything to get it there....”Mike Barnicle:
“I certainly don’t believe that the former Vice President of the United
States is sitting there in McLean, Virginia saying, ‘You know, I hope
today’s the day.’ Do you believe that?”Schultz: “I really
do, Mike, I do. I really believe, because I think it’s all about the
conservatives grabbing the power and keeping it. These folks hate. Just
my opinion. I mean, I don’t want to offend anybody.”— Exchange on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, June 16, 2009.

“Cheney
is nothing but a selfish pig. And for him to do what he’s doing to the
elected President of the United States goes ‘beyond the pale,’ to use
one of his favorite sayings. It is official — Dick Cheney wants this
country to get hit. He wants another terrorist attack for political
gain. They want to bury liberals the same way they want to bury the
terrorists. They want complete global control, is what they want.
Control of oil, control of resources, control of the economy — the list
goes on and on — the control of the school systems, everything! That’s
what they want. And the only way that you can get any of that is if
you have conflict. And since we’re not in a war, we have to set the
table for a war.”— Ed Schultz, The Ed Schultz Show, April 21, 2009. [MP3 audio]

Conservatives Actually Are Terrorists

“You crazy sons of bitches, you right-wingers. Do you not understand
that the people you hold up as heroes bombed your goddamn country? Do
you not understand that Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh
and Bill O’Reilly are as complicit of the September 11, 2001 terror
attack as any one of those dumbass 15 who came from Saudi Arabia? Don’t
you get that?”— Mike Malloy on The Mike Malloy Show, January 19, 2010. [MP3 audio]

“Republicans,
whose — who have had straws stuffed up their noses by Rush Limbaugh
and their brains sucked out, replaced by ‘Excellence in Broadcasting,’
don’t have a clue as to what is going on, because this is where they
get their information....They [working class Americans] think they are
Republican, and the Republican Party, a terrorist organization, loves
that. Just like the jihadists love the fact that brain-dead uneducated
Muslim boys in the Middle East are willing to give themselves over to
suicide bombing. Why? Because there are 700 virgins — or is it 70? —
waiting for you in paradise! Well, Republican voters are just the same,
the same! Limbaugh and the Mannity [Sean Hannity] and the rest of these
pigs get on the air and say to their brain-dead listeners, ‘Well, we
have 70 virgins waiting for you — only it’s in the form of tax
cuts!’...I say let the sons of bitches drown. Let them drown! This is
what they want! They are suicidal! Republicans are jihadists. They want
to blow themselves up! They are a terrorist organization, the
Republican Party. It needs to be killed before it does more damage to
our country!”— Mike Malloy, The Mike Malloy Show, February 13, 2009. [MP3 audio]

“They’re
worse than useless. These are terrorists. These are domestic
terrorists. They want the country to fail, for God’s sake. They want
exactly what anyone who attacked this country on September 11, 2001
wanted. The real internal terrorists are the Republicans. I mean, isn’t
that clear? Rush Limbaugh is a bigger threat to this country than Osama
bin Laden. He’s a bigger threat than anybody that the CIA can invent.
He’s a bigger threat than any terrorist that ever leveled its sights
against the United States, Limbaugh is. So why isn’t he arrested and
sentenced for treason?”— Mike Malloy on The Mike Malloy Show, on February 10, 2009. [MP3 audio]

Republicans Orchestrated Christmas Jet Bombing

“There are forces at work in this country — and I believe this
as surely as I believe I put on my right shoe before I put on my left —
there are forces alive in this country, who are very active in this
country, very wealthy in this country, who want to see Obama fail no
matter what, and the idea of killing two or three hundred people on
board a jetliner in order to make the point is nothing. It means
nothing. We kill that many in a week in our adventures around the
world, in places where we’re bombing where we shouldn’t even be....My
gut feeling is that this was deliberate. This was deliberately done in
order to put the Obama administration in such a vise grip, that it’s
impossible to get anything done. To raise so much fear. This is what
Republicans do, this is what they do.”— Mike Malloy on the January 4, 2010 Mike Malloy Show, talking about al-Qaeda’s attempted Christmas Day bombing of a passenger jet. [MP3 audio]

Tea Party: “The Sickest Movement I’ve Ever Seen”

“They just come town to town, and they stand there with their stupid
signs screaming and yelling about corporations need to be protected.
It’s the sickest movement I’ve ever seen in my life!”— Randi Rhodes talking about the Tea Party on The Randi Rhodes Show, April 15, 2010. [MP3 audio]

Clarence Thomas = Supreme Court’s “House Negro”

“The latest from the crazy people in the tea bag movement is a story
about Virginia Thomas. She is the wife of Supreme Court Justice
Clarence Thomas, and she’s setting up a tea bagger nonprofit group. Now
this will be interesting, because the tea baggers are essentially
racist, and how are they’re going to deal with a very dark Clarence
Thomas and a very white Virginia Thomas setting up a subdivision of
their crazed tea bagger party — how they’re going to deal with that
will be great fun to watch.“Now Clarence Thomas has always, kind
of, adopted the attitude of the House Negro, so perhaps he’ll do it
this time also. Clarence Thomas, in all the years he’s been on the
United States Supreme Court, I don’t think has ever, ever written an
opinion that became the rule of the Court; he has never been the lead
author. He has — I don’t think he’s even spoken for the past six years.
He just looks at fat Tony Scalia; and if Fat Tony farts, Uncle
Clarence farts. If Fat Tony burps, Uncle Clarence burps. This is the
guy that George Herbert Walker Bush said was the most qualified man in
America to be on the Supreme Court.”— Mike Malloy on The Mike Malloy Show, March 15, 2010. [MP3 audio]

Criticism of ObamaCare = Incitement of Terrorism

“You rat bastards are going to cause another Murrah federal
building explosion. You are. And then what is Beck — maybe at that
point Beck will do the honorable thing and blow his brains out. Maybe
at that point, Limbaugh will do the honorable thing and just gobble up
enough Viagra that he becomes absolutely rigid and keels over dead.
Maybe then O’Reilly will just drink a vat of that poison he spews out
on America every night and choke to death! Because that’s what’s gonna
to happen. That’s what they are pushing these right-wing, nut case,
fringe, militia jerk-wads to doing!”— Mike Malloy on The Mike Malloy Show, March 26, 2010, complaining about conservative hosts criticism of the newly-passed health care law. [MP3 audio]

Conservatives are Killers

Conservatives Hope You Die

“If in fact the GOP doesn’t like any form of, of health care reform,
what do we do with those 40 to 60 million uninsured? So, from this
point on, I’m telling ya, when they show up at the emergency room, just
shoot ‘em! Kill them! Drag them off and throw them in a — what are we
doing? I saw that in Kenya. I see people dying in the Kibera slums, and
every morning somebody goes through and just retrieves the bodies.
Now, if we really say, ‘We have nothing to do, we can’t help those 40
million people,’ do we have enough body bags? I don’t know.”— Montel Williams on Montel Across America, July 21, 2009. [MP3 audio]

“The Republicans lie! They want to see you dead! They’d rather make
money off your dead corpse! They kind of like it when that woman has
cancer and they don’t have anything for her. That’s how the insurance
companies make money: by denying the coverage. My God, Democrats! What’s
wrong with you?! You can’t deal with these people! At all!”— Ed Schultz on MSNBC’s The Ed Show, September 23, 2009.

Conservatives Incite Murder “For Sport”

“This is what they do. [Bill] O’Reilly inspires people to go
kill doctors who provide private abortion services, legal services to
his patients, and then O’Reilly stands there with that dung-eating look
on his face — what a son of a bitch he is! — ‘Oh, it wasn’t me, blah,
blah.’ Of course it was you, you thug! And then the suicide-prone
Glenn Beck rails against Census workers, and inspires his people to go
out and kill one for sport. And I will guarantee you that O’Reilly and
Beck and the rest of these monsters on the neo-fascist right in this
country love this stuff. It gives them something else to talk about.
It’s sport.”— Mike Malloy, The Mike Malloy Show, September 23, 2009. [MP3 audio]

“A
security guard [at Washington, D.C.’s Holocaust Museum] tonight,
Stephen T. Johns, is dead, because Rush Limbaugh and Neal Boortz and
Sean Hannity and Matt Drudge and Michael Savage and all the rest, Glenn
Beck, all the rest of these people pump daily, hourly, minute by
minute, into public discourse: hatred, fear, contempt. They do it every
day. They do it without letup; they are not self-censoring. It’s a
constant deluge in this country, of this poison from these
right-wingers. Poison.”— Mike Malloy on The Mike Malloy Show, June 10, 2009. [MP3 audio]

Conservatives Want Endless Repeats of Oklahoma City Bombing

“Today, I think Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh want today to be
declared, uh, a national holiday. I suggest it be called Beck Memorial
Day. This is the kind of day 15 years ago when Beck was still working,
uh, in a bath house as a towel boy. This is the kind of day that, 15
years ago that Beck, when he woke up and heard about the bombing of the
Murrah Federal Building, he applauded. He clapped. He danced. He
jumped around like a drop of water on a hot pancake griddle! He was
just as happy as could be! This is what Beck and Limbaugh and the rest
of these right wing freaks want to see happen again. And again. And
again. Endlessly.”— Mike Malloy talking about the 15th anniversary of the bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building, Mike Malloy Show, April 19, 2010. [MP3 audio]

No More “Acts of Treason” or “Letting People Drown”

“[Snorts] I hope he [Sean Hannity] enjoyed his little rant, because
he is going to have to make it every day for the next eight years.
Every day for the next eight years, this is what he is gonna say on his
radio show. Anybody who would try that hard to make you afraid — which
is what they’ve been doing for eight years — has to be scared out of
their mind that they are about to get their fingernails pried off the
levers of power, that they are not going to be able to steal anymore,
that they are not going to be able to commit acts of treason anymore.
They are not going to be able to out CIA undercover operatives. They’re
not going to be able to ignore terrorist warnings, or disappear people
anymore. They’re not going to be able to let people drown in
hurricanes anymore. They’re not going to be able to get their mitts on
the Treasury, or hire cronies, or pack the Justice Department with Karl
Rove protégés without Senate confirmation.”— Randi Rhodes on The Randi Rhodes Show, October 29, 2008. [MP3 audio]

Conservatives Want to Kill Barack Obama

“Sometimes I think they want Obama to get shot. I do. I really
think that there are conservative broadcasters in this country who
would love to see Obama taken out. They fear socialism. They fear
Marxism. They fear that the United States of America won’t be the
United States of America anymore.”— Ed Schultz, The Ed Schultz Show, August 11, 2009. [MP3 audio]

“Right Wing” Killed the Kennedy Brothers

“You know as well as I know that the death of Senator Ted
Kennedy is the death of a man, absolutely, and everything he was to the
people in his extended family, but we also understand it’s the death
of an era. One of the remaining — if not the remaining — lynchpin of
liberalism in this country is gone. And you know what the term
‘lynchpin’ means. So, with the death of Ted Kennedy last night,
liberalism in this country has, has lost its champion, the person who,
in the modern era, personified liberalism to a greater degree than
anyone in Congress. I think his death heralds the beginning of a very,
very, very dark period in this country. I remember feeling that way in
1963 and again in 1968, when his two brothers were murdered by the
right wing in this country.”— Mike Malloy, The Mike Malloy Show, August 26, 2009. [MP3 audio]

U.S. Government Killed Martin Luther King, Jr.

“The argument has been made that one of the reasons that the
U.S. government assassinated Martin Luther King, Jr. was because of his
speech at Riverside Church in New York — I think it was Riverside
Church — where he came out fully against the war in southeast Asia and
fully against the policies that were being perpetrated against the
American people in general. He left his little safe niche of, ‘Oh,
well, he’s the spokesman for the Negroes,’ and stepped outside that and
started taking on greater issues, and so the United States government
said, ‘Well, time to get rid of this guy.’”— Mike Malloy, The Mike Malloy Show, January 14, 2008. [MP3 audio]

Blaming Fort Hood Murders on George W. Bush

“I think in his [Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan’s] particular case,
it’s that he’s counseling these guys, hearing about the horrors of
these wars that he’s now going to be sent into, you know. You add to it
obviously the fact that he appeared to be — and again, we don’t have
all the details yet — but appeared to be getting more radicalized, you
know. But you know, and also add in that, look, George Bush made many
people around the world feel like this was a war against Islam by using
words like ‘crusade’ and all of that. So, and then you add to that the
fact that he apparently was taunted for being Muslim because of the
attitudes that had, that developed here. So — and that’s not to excuse
him in any way. That’s what I keep hearing on the Right is, ‘Oh, you
people on the Left are trying to excuse him. Oh, its politically
correct,’ or whatever. No, nobody is saying that this is any kind of
excuse at all. But, I mean, it’s just, I think you’ve got to get to the
real reasons if you want to stop this from happening again.”— Stephanie Miller on The Stephanie Miller Show, November 10, 2009. [MP3 audio]

Conservatives Are Baby-Eating Nazis

Republican Congresswoman Would Have Enjoyed the Holocaust

“I sometimes wonder what people think in this country, when they
send someone like, oh, for example, Michele Bachmann to Congress. She
represents a district in Minnesota, she’s a Republican of course, and
she’s a hatemonger. She’s the type of person that would have gladly
rounded up the Jews in Germany and shipped them off to death camps.
She’s the type of person who would have had no problem sending
typhoid-smeared blankets to Native American families awaiting
deportation to reservations. She’s the type of person that I’m sure
believes that the use of Agent Orange in Vietnam was good, and the use
of depleted uranium in Iraq served a purpose. This is an evil bitch from
Hell. I mean, just an absolute evil woman.”— Mike Malloy, The Mike Malloy Show, October 17, 2008. [MP3 audio]

Dick Cheney Eats Babies

“[Former Vice President Dick] Cheney, by the way looks very
ruddy; I couldn’t get over that, like, he must have feasted on a Jewish
baby, or a Muslim baby. He must have sent his people out to get one
and bring it back so he could drink its blood, because that’s, you
know, that’s what somebody like Cheney does to get that ruddy
look....The weird part — there were no dribbles of blood down his tux,
but it was very clear that he had been eating the blood of either a
Jewish or a Muslim baby; he wouldn’t eat a Christian baby. If he ate
the blood of a Christian baby, I — there’s something in the old
writings that said that instantly the trap door to Hell opens and you
disappear into the smoke.”— Mike Malloy, The Mike Malloy Show, October 22, 2009. [MP3 audio]

“Cheney
has had five heart attacks, and history of heart trouble — well, I
guess they’re one and the same. The cause of his latest health problem
is not clear. I think I know. (long pause) He’s done too much
cannibalism, drunk too many cups of blood! Cheney’s in the hospital. Ah,
the first good news all day....I’m not going to feel anything but
intense gratitude that this miserable bastard has finally stepped off
this earthly coil! Really!...Cheney is a murderer. He’s a killer. He’s a
torturer. He is evil personified! He is a walking mass of horror and
when he’s gone, this planet will be cleaner!”— Mike Malloy on The Mike Malloy Show, June 25, 2010. [MP3 audio]

Wanting Fox Hosts Beaten With Baseball Bats

Host Ed Schultz: “Speaking of sports, [Fox News hosts
Bill] O’Reilly, [Glenn] Beck and Geraldo [Rivera] go to a Yankees game
this weekend and somehow they ended up in the front row. How in the
heck did they ever manage that, Steph?”Radio host Stephanie Miller:
“Ah, Ed. You know if ever there was a time I wish the Yankees would
bring back Bat Day, and give a bunch of drunken New Yorkers bats, that
would have been the day.”— Exchange on MSNBC’s The Ed Show, July 23, 2010.

Conservative Republicans = Mass Suicide Cult

Announcer: “The following is a paid advertisement from
Republicans for Mitt Romney, or mass suicide. If John McCain is the
Republican Presidential nominee, it will destroy the Republican Party.
We’re Romney supporters and we know. Because, if you vote for John
McCain, we’re going to go on a killing rampage. Hey, better dead than
moderate.”Republican Character Voice: “Look, I for one don’t
want to die in a hail of gunfire from crazed Mitt Romney supporters,
but it’s better than nominating a man who opposed the Bush tax cuts.
Hell, John McCain spent years in a North Vietnamese prison. A prison!
That doesn’t make him a hero. That makes him an ex-con.”Announcer:
“Exactly, and um, you know what men do in prison. You see, if John
McCain is President, he’ll make sodomy mandatory. Now, Mitt Romney,
well, he believes all sex should be outlawed.”Second Republican Character:
“As a true Republican, I’m prepared to poison my own children if John
McCain is the nominee, but I do wish there was another way.”Announcer:
“There is. If Mitt Romney is the nominee, he’ll give everyone a free
new car, made by people in Michigan, with company-paid health care and
pensions just like 1955. If John McCain is the nominee, well, we are
going to kill everybody, then turn the guns on ourselves. So choose
wisely this election day. This has been a paid ad from Republicans for
Mitt Romney, or [sound of gun being cocked] mass suicide.”— Parody commercial aired on Air America’s Randi Rhodes Show, February 5, 2008. [MP3 audio]

“Pig” Limbaugh Would Like It If All Children Starved

“If Limbaugh had his way, hungry kids would remain hungry kids,
period. They can starve to death. Limbaugh is a filthy, disgusting
personification of predatory capitalism at its worst. He’s just a filthy
beast. I don’t understand how this woman who married him, how does she
get in bed with this slob? I mean, how do you do that? How does she
sit across a dinner table from him? Uhhh — never mind!...Can you
believe that this society produced a filthy human being like that? A
society that has in its element, corporate America that determines this
pig — this pig is worth $50 million a year. That’s 1 million a week!
This filthy dehumanized pig is worth that? I get him when the lights
are out, he’s mine, there’s no question about that! None!”— Mike Malloy on The Mike Malloy Show, June 17, 2010. [MP3 audio]

Rush Limbaugh, Wife Beater?

“I’m guessing that the White House advisor on domestic violence will
never say that beating your wife is OK, which may be a disappointment
to Rush Limbaugh. And you wonder why this guy can’t stay married...”— Ron Reagan, Jr. on The Ron Reagan Show, June 29, 2009. [MP3 audio]

Rush Limbaugh Serves Satan

“That Rush Limbaugh, that guy, I have to say — there’s another fat
bastard that I opened up the door for, huh? It really, it really makes
me mad because, um, he, he goes and — like, I opened up the channel for
fat funny guys, I really did, that were blue collar and populist or
whatever. He took the blue collar and, like, totally went the wrong way
with it. So, he is taking my mojo and, like, using it for satanic
forces, and I just don’t like it when people are working for Satan
instead of God. I don’t like that.”— Roseanne Barr guest hosting Air America’s American Afternoon, May 1, 2008. [MP3 audio]

Rush Limbaugh = Hitler

Host Ed Schultz: “It’s kind of like the way Rush brought it to CPAC over the weekend, about how, you know, how interesting he was.” Clip of Rush Limbaugh at CPAC, accompanied by audio of Adolf Hitler and cheering Nazis:
“I want Barack Obama to fail if his mission is to restructure and
reform this country so that capitalism and individual liberty are not
its foundation. Why would I want that to succeed?”...Schultz:
“Now if you watch Limbaugh with the sound down, the drugster, he looks
like Adolf Hitler! His animation is amazing! It’s, the parallel is so
striking. And then, of course, Rush is now the angry American. The angry
American. And that’s where they are. They are so out of touch, just
like Hitler was out of touch. But he was mesmerizing. So, I think it was
comical. I think there are parallels drawn by some of the things
Hitler was saying and some of the things that were at the CPAC
convention. They are not Americans. They don’t care about the greater
good of society.” — Ed Schultz, The Ed Schultz Show, March 2, 2009. [MP3 audio]

Dick Cheney Is a Nazi

“You know, I listen to this monster, and all I see is underneath
his suit, I see the SS uniform. And if he were to open up his collar,
there would be the death’s head.”— Mike Malloy referring to Dick Cheney on the January 7, 2009 Mike Malloy Show. [MP3 audio]

Wishing Conservatives Would Die

Let’s Hang Matt Drudge with a Republican’s Intestines

“Drudge? Aw, Drudge, somebody ought to wrap a strong Republican
entrail around his neck and hoist him up about six feet in the air and
watch him bounce.”— Mike Malloy on The Mike Malloy Show, December 19, 2007.[MP3 audio]

Republicans: A “Nest of Rats” that Must Be “Murdered”

“Republicans are evil sons-of-bitches. The Republican Party needs to
be murdered. It needs to — it’s like if you had a nest of rats in your
house, or a hornets nest under the eaves at your barn or your house,
and you knew they were going to do harm to you, your family, your kid —
if you live on the farm, your livestock, whatever. What would you do?
Of course — you’d get an exterminator and you would murder the nest and
get rid of it. Just get rid of it. This is what America needs right
now; they need to have the Republican Party eliminated, totally,
completely. It is destructive, it is negative, it is sick. [laughs] A
mercy killing is what’s needed here.”— Mike Malloy, The Mike Malloy Show, February 4, 2009. [MP3 audio]

“For
the people who give a damn about what I say about the Republican Party
being murdered, of course it needs to be murdered. It needs to be
ended. It is a force for destruction in this country unlike anything
that’s ever been domestic. It really is. The commies, the spies sent by
the Germans, the freaks, even [Rush] Limbaugh — the head of the
Republican Party — is not as damaging as these Republican
officeholders....The Republican Party needs to be executed. Rush
Limbaugh needs to choke to death on his own fat....The Republican Party
needs to be beheaded. It needs to be taken out on some dark moonless
night in the middle of a corn field and decapitated.”— Mike Malloy, The Mike Malloy Show, February 18, 2009. [MP3 audio]

Wishing Conservatives Would Die

“He is an enemy of the country, in my opinion, Dick Cheney is, he is
an enemy of the country. He’s making it harder for those who are in
power right now to protect the country. He’s about the political
divide. It just, I just think the guy’s such a freakin’ loser. You
know, Lord, take him to the Promised Land, will you? See, I don’t even
wish the guy goes to Hell, I just want to get him the hell out of
here.”— Ed Schultz, The Ed Schultz Show, May 11, 2009. [MP3 audio]

“So,
Michele, slit your wrist! Go ahead! [chuckles] I mean, you know, why
not? I mean, if you want to — or, you know, do us all a better thing.
Move that knife up about two feet. I mean, start right at the
collarbone.”— Montel Williams talking about Representative Michele Bachmann on Air America’s Montel Across America, September 2, 2009. [MP3 audio]

“I
have a good news to report: Glenn Beck appears ever closer to suicide.
I’m hoping that he does it on camera. Suicide is rampant in his
family, and given his alcoholism and his tendencies towards
self-destruction, I am only hoping that when Glenn Beck does put a gun
to his head and pulls the trigger, that it’s on television, because
somebody will capture it on YouTube and it will be the most popular
little piece of video for months.”— Mike Malloy, The Mike Malloy Show, August 4, 2009. [MP3 audio]

Hoping Rush Limbaugh Dies

“I’ve spent way too much time in the past 20 years paying
attention to what this slobbery bastard had to say. I told [my wife]
Kathy the other day, I just — I’ve never said this before, but I hope
I’m alive when this, when this guy dies. I really do. He is so morbidly
overweight. He smokes. He eats his Viagra and goes down to the
Dominican Republic to bugger little boys. I just hope that I’m around
when he croaks. I don’t know why, but I do.”— Mike Malloy talking about Rush Limbaugh on the January 23, 2009 Mike Malloy Show. [MP3 audio]

“Some
horrifyingly intense America-hater like Rush Limbaugh, who appears to
be morphing into, seriously, he is morphing into Jabba the Hutt — I’ve
seen some recent video, this guy is enormous, he just keeps bloating
up. It’s, it’s just — I hope he keeps going, because that means he will
soon croak. You know, like I’ve said, he will eventually choke to
death on his own throat fat.”— Mike Malloy on The Mike Malloy Show, on January 28, 2009.[MP3 audio]

“The
Limbaugh story — I got my hopes up, I really did....What’s the matter,
Rush — a little too much Viagra? Those 14-year olds really wear you
down, won’t they? Oh, my God, what a joke that was! If Limbaugh would
have died, I would have demanded to see the death certificate because,
after all, it is Hawaii....I’m waiting for the day when I pick it up,
pick up a newspaper or click on the Internet and find out he’s choked to
death on his own throat fat or a great big wad of saliva or something,
you know, whatever. Go away, Rush, you make me sick!”— Mike Malloy on the January 4, 2010 Mike Malloy Show, talking about Rush Limbaugh going to the hospital after suffering chest pains. [MP3 audio]

We Should “Rip Out” and “Kick Around” Cheney’s Heart

“You’re damn right, Dick Cheney’s heart’s a political football.
We ought to rip it out and kick it around and stuff it back in him. I’m
glad he didn’t tip over....How come Dick Cheney’s health care isn’t
being dropped? Do you realize that if you had five heart attacks —
hell, you wouldn’t get past two heart attacks and they’d dump you. But,
because you’re a war criminal, and because you are on the take from
Haliburton and you had these executive meetings in 2001 back in the,
you know, the days of the rolling blackouts and executive privilege on
how we’re going to develop energy policy in this country, you do stuff
like that — hell, you can get the best health care on the face of the
earth.”— Ed Schultz on The Ed Schultz Show, February 24, 2010. [MP3 audio]

Time to Shove GOP “Bastards Right Into the Dirthole!”

“To hell with the Republicans! They’re anti-American! They’re
psycho talkers! They don’t care!...Harry [Reid], you are ball-less! You
won’t do the nuke option for the American people and shove the
Republicans into the ditch! Shove those bastards right into the
dirthole! This is about power! It’s about winning!”— Ed Schultz on The Ed Schultz Show, July 14, 2010.[MP3 audio]

Sarah Palin: A Threat to Teenage Boys

“That’s who she is. She’s friends with all the teenage boys. You
have to say no when your kids go, ‘Can we sleep over the Palin’s?’ No!
No!”— Randi Rhodes talking about Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, September 12, 2008 Randi Rhodes Show.[MP3 audio]

Hoping Sarah Palin Goes Insane

“Now, you don’t believe, gentle listener, that these Free
Republic, Limbaugh, Drudge Report suck-heads are not completely mad?
They’re completely insane? And you know who is the perfect
personification of this madness, is their new darling, Sarah Palin....I
can look at Sarah Palin and look at her eyes and see a total collapse
of anything that even resembles reality. This is a woman who is
absorbing more and more and more of her own life force, if you know
what I mean by that. She is eating herself alive. She honestly is
starting to believe what the brain-dead teabaggers and birthers and,
and — ‘Obama’s health care plan is to murder old people’ — what — the
adulation and the praise and the cheering that they heap on this crazy
psychopath, when she makes a public speech. And I’m hoping, I’m
praying, while I — I don’t pray — while I hope that Rush Limbaugh will
choke to death on his own throat fat, I also hope that Sarah Palin will
drive herself completely, completely into madness, and I think the
possibility truly exists.”— Mike Malloy, The Mike Malloy Show, July 28, 2009.[MP3 audio]

Going After Democrats Who Stand In Obama’s Way

[WARNING: VIDEO CONTAINS UNCENSORED GRAPHIC LANGUAGE]

“Geraldine
Ferraro turned out to be the David Duke in drag. Who knew? She’s like,
‘Why am I the bad guy here? I just don’t want an anti-Semite racist in
the White House.’ Like Nixon, or Ronald Reagan, or Dick Cheney — who
moved to Wyoming so he would never have to see a black guy or a Jew
ever, and still run for Vice President of the United States. I mean,
it’s like, unbelievable to me. I can’t believe it — what a whore
Geraldine Ferraro is. She’s such a f***ing whore. [loud cheers] ...“Hillary
is a big f***ing whore, too, okay. [applause]...She is a big f***ing
whore, and do you know why she’s a big f***ing whore? Because her deal
is always, ‘Read the fine print, asshole.’ You know, like, ‘I said I’d
pull you, but I didn’t say I’d f*** you,’ you know. She’s like, ‘The
super delegates,’ — no, never mind, the super — ‘The pledged delegates
aren’t legally obligated to do anything.’ Oh, f*** you. You know? Just
f*** you! They aren’t legally bound to do anything, she said. And if
that doesn’t work, you know she’s going all Lieberman on you, right?
[more cheers]”— Then-Air America host Randi Rhodes, in a March
22, 2008 appearance sponsored by the network’s San Francisco affiliate
KKGN, video of which was posted on YouTube on April 4, 2008. Rhodes was
suspended, and later left the network; her show was subsequently
syndicated by Nova M radio.

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